Jazz Articles about Jimmy Macbride

About Jimmy Macbride

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Meron Menares Macbride: Live at The Sound Room

Read "Live at The Sound Room" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
July 16, 2026

Recorded during their 2025 tour, Live At The Sound Room captures Daniel Meron's trio in peak form. The trio was formed in 2024, but Israeli pianist Meron, Chilean bassist Pablo Menares and US drummer Jimmy Macbride have been collaborating for over 15 years in the New York City jazz ecosystem. The album spans 17 years of Meron's creative output and his equalitarian approach to the trio, which provides a platform for each musician to lead. Their collective exploration ...

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Alex Wintz: Collage

Read "Collage" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
June 4, 2026

Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex Wintz is not only a frequent performer, both with his own group and with artists such as the trumpeters Etienne Charles and Jeremy Pelt and trombonist Nick Finzer, but also an educator on the faculty of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jazz for Teens program and a clever composer. Collage features six excellent original tunes along with the jazz standard “The Shadow of Your Smile" and George Harrison's “Isn't It A Pity" and follows Wintz's two ...

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Noah Garabedian: Quartets and Solos

Read "Quartets and Solos" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 27, 2025

If ever an album were in need of liner notes--or at least some further clarification--it is this one, Quartets and Solos, by New York-based bassist Noah Garabedian's quartet; or quintet, if one includes album producer Samuel Adams' special effects and programming. The playlist consists of 13 songs. According to a press release, they alternate “between eight conceptually stand-alone quartet compositions...and sharply focused solo features written specifically for each musician (including Adams)." There are two such showcases for every ...

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Jamile with Miki Yamanaka and her trio plus Steve Wilson: Pursuit of a Pulse

Read "Pursuit of a Pulse" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
October 22, 2025

Jamile Staevie Ayres, who goes professionally by her first name, was born and raised in Cachoeira do Sul, a midsize city located a couple of hours from Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, and the heart of its gaúcho culture. Growing up, she gravitated toward música popular brasileira (MPB) and Black popular music of the US. Gal Costa and Aretha Franklin were her two big vocal heroines. She took her undergraduate degree in Brazil ...

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Nick Finzer: The Jazz Orchestra Volume 1

Read "The Jazz Orchestra Volume 1" reviewed by Carl Medsker

by Carl Medsker
September 1, 2025

Listening chronologically to seven of Nick Finzer's preceding albums is enlightening and entertaining, making several aspects of his musicianship abundantly apparent. His trombone sound is full and expressive, his playing melodious and he can soulfully sing a ballad. Six albums, dating back to 2013, featured his highly talented sextet, a significant accomplishment that enhances the depth and confidence of the recordings. But Finzer's evolving skills in arranging his fresh compositions truly distinguish his work. He choreographs his bandmates amidst lovely ...

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Silvano Monasterios: The River

Read "The River" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 11, 2025

To enhance his musical excursion along The River, composer, arranger and pianist Silvano Monasterios invited eight talented companions on board to share the ride. He did not make it easy for them. As envisioned by Monasterios, this river is by turns placid or turbulent, sparse or overflowing--but invariably tricky to navigate and tame. The entire work, he writes, is “a suite of what I consider Venezuelan music," and was inspired by the people in his native land ...

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Sergio Pamies: Time to Say

Read "Time to Say" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2025

Spanish themes and rhythms reign supreme on Time to Say, Granada-born composer, arranger and pianist Sergio Pamies' fourth album, one that is enhanced on its opening and closing numbers, respectively, by the presence of renowned woodwind artists Dave Liebman and Paquito D'Rivera. Not that Pamies' septet needs much help, as everyone is laser-focused and totally in sync. At the same time, Pamies, trumpeter Alex Norris, trombonist Marshall Gilkes and saxophonist Michael Thomas (on alto or soprano) are ...